The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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